Content Submission Agreement

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the “Church”), has given individuals the opportunity to submit content including writings, photos, artwork, text, video recordings, audio recordings, music (such as sheet music, lyrics, tunes, musical recordings, etc.), and other content in response to requests for such materials from the Church for consideration and use by the Church. You have expressed a desire to voluntarily provide such content, but to do so you must agree to the following terms of this Content Submission Agreement (“Agreement”):

a. You understand and agree that if you submit any writing, photo, artwork, text, video recording, audio recording, music, or any other material ("Submission"), at any time, you grant to Intellectual Reserve, Inc. and its licensees, successors, assigns, and affiliated entities (collectively, “IRI”) the right to publish and use the Submission. Additionally, you hereby grant to IRI a fully-paid, royalty-free, irrevocable, worldwide, non-exclusive, transferable, and unrestricted license to use your Submission throughout the universe in perpetuity, and to reproduce, modify, adapt, edit, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, display, sublicense, to incorporate the Submission (in whole or in part) in other works, and to otherwise use and allow others to use your Submission in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. You further agree that while IRI is under no obligation to provide you with credit for the Submission, IRI may, at its sole discretion, distribute and otherwise use and allow others to use your name, voice, image, likeness, performance, and other personal information, as provided by you, in connection with the Submission and in accordance with our Privacy Policy (which is hereby incorporated into this Agreement by reference).

b. You understand that IRI maintains membership and related records containing personal information about you which may include, but is not limited to: name, age, address, Church membership status, and location of Church membership. IRI uses this information to help administer the use of the Submissions. You further grant IRI permission to collect and process additional limited personal information about you, including, but not limited to, your e-mail address, one or more photographs of you, and other personal information you might choose to provide. This personal information is collected to allow IRI to identify and contact you regarding the Submission and to publish such content. You hereby consent to this collection, use, processing, disclosure, and transfer of your personal information for the purposes described above.

c. You acknowledge that IRI is not obligated to use your Submission in any form. While IRI acknowledges that you shall continue to own all copyright to your Submission, subject to the unrestricted license granted above, you acknowledge and agree that you will not have any right, title, or interest in or to any work, publication, or material that is produced by IRI (or by our sublicensees) and which contains all or a portion of your Submission. You agree that you have not and will not sell or license any part of your Submission in a way that would impair or restrict IRI from fully using the rights and licenses you have granted herein.

d. You are under no obligation to provide a Submission. Additionally, you will not receive any compensation for any Submission, for the licenses granted above, or for any waiver or any grant of additional rights as outlined herein. You agree that IRI’s review of your Submission for possible use is adequate consideration for the rights, licenses, and releases granted in this Agreement.

e. You warrant that you will not submit any material that is prohibited by law in any applicable jurisdiction or to which you do not have the right to grant the licenses and rights set forth above. You also warrant that you have the right to grant to IRI the rights, licenses, and releases granted above, and that such rights do not conflict with the rights (including, but not limited to, the copyrights, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, privacy rights, contract rights, or any similar rights) of any other person or legal entity or with your obligations thereto.

<ul> i. In this regard, if anyone besides yourself made contributions to your Submission (for example by co-authoring, arranging, composing, recording, filming, etc.) or otherwise has copyright ownership in or other rights to your Submission, then you hereby represent and warrant that you will have each such person sign a printable copy of this Agreement (as available HERE). (Please note that if your Submission includes or is based on material taken from the following lists of Public Domain Hymns and/or Public Domain Children’s Songs (and not from another’s arrangement of such hymns or songs), then you only need to ensure that people who modified, added to, or otherwise used the public domain materials to contribute to your Submission, sign a copy of this Agreement. In other words, you do not need those people who created/authored the original material that is included in the above-mentioned lists of Public Domain Hymns and Children’s Songs to sign a copy of this Agreement. </ul><ul>ii. You agree not to submit any Submission containing a picture, video, audio, performance, or other recoding of any identifiable person or of any identifiable, privately-owned location, without first receiving written consent that allows IRI to use that Submission in accordance with the rights and licenses granted herein. Specifically, you agree that before you upload any Submission containing (1) the name, image, voice, likeness, performance, mix, or other recording of an identifiable person or (2) the name, picture, likeness, video recording, audio recording, or other recording of an identifiable, privately-owned location, you will read the Audio/Visual Recording Instruction Sheet, take reasonable measures to follow the instructions set forth therein, and submit a signed copy (or the original) of any applicable Release to Use Image and Performance Form and/or Location Release along with your Submission. For Submissions that include music, you agree that you have read the Call for Music, and that you will have every person who sings, plays a musical instrument, mixes, or otherwise participates in the production of your Submission sign the Release to Use Image and Performance Form, and that you will submit the signed releases with your Submission.</ul>f. You warrant that you consent to IRI’s collection and use of your Submission and personal information; you agree to indemnify IRI for any liabilities associated with later acts by you or others in connection with this Agreement and your Submission; and you acknowledge and agree that you will be bound by all provisions contained in this Agreement. You agree that you shall have no claim of any kind or nature against IRI based on the exercise of any rights, licenses, or releases granted hereunder.

g. The terms of this Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Utah without regard to its conflict of law provisions and you agree that any disagreement arising from or related to this Agreement, which we cannot resolve through discussions, shall be settled exclusively in the courts located within the County of Salt Lake, Utah, United States of America. If any provision of this Agreement is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties' intentions as reflected in the provision, and the other provisions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect. You agree that in the event of any dispute regarding this Agreement or your Submission, you will be limited to your remedies at law for damages and will not be entitled to terminate or rescind this Agreement, or to seek equitable or injunctive relief, or to enjoin, restrain or otherwise interfere with the exercise of the licenses granted herein.

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Full Name:
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Full Address:
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Phone number with area code:
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Other phone number with area code:

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Email Address:
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Additional Email Address:

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Age

In order to participate you need to be thirteen years old or older. Furthermore, if you are thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen years old, you will also need a parent or legal guardian to agree to this Agreement.
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I warrant that I am eighteen years or older; OR

I warrant that I am thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen years old, and that I will have my parent or guardian agree to this Agreement.

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Participants in Your Submission

Copyright Ownership in Your Submission
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I warrant that, outside of any content taken directly from the following lists of Public Domain Hymns and/or Public Domain Children’s Songs, I am the sole author and owner of my Submission; OR

One or more people have some ownership rights in my Submission. Accordingly, I agree that I will have each owner of my Submission sign their own personal copy of this Agreement, and that I will submit the additional signed copies of this Agreement along with my Submission.

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Identifiable People in Your Submission
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I warrant that my Submission does not contain recordings (such as photographs, sound recordings, performances, etc.) of any identifiable person (meaning that people who are familiar with any particular person in my Submission, could not identify that person in my Submission); OR

My Submission includes recordings of one or more identifiable individuals. Accordingly, I warrant that I have read the Audio/Visual Recording Instruction Sheet, and that I will submit a properly signed Release to Use Image and Performance Form for each such individual, along with my Submission.

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Identifiable, Privately-owned Locations in Your Submission
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I warrant that my Submission does not contain recordings (such as photographs, sound recordings, etc.) of any identifiable, privately-owned location (meaning that people who are familiar with a particular privately-owned location cannot identify that location in my Submission); OR

My Submission includes recordings of one or more identifiable, privately-owned locations. Accordingly, I warrant that I have read the Audio/Visual Recording Instruction Sheet, and that I will submit a properly signed Location Release for each such individual, privately-owned location, along with my Submission.

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Video You Are Submitting

File names of the video and releases you are submitting:
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Include key words to describe the video. EXAMPLE: AtlantaTemple.mp4, johnson_release.jpg

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If you used music in your Submission:

List the names of the musical pieces and the order in which you used them. Only music that you authored or that is taken directly from the lists of Public Domain Hymns and/or Public Domain Children’s Songs is acceptable to use for music right now.

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If you wrote music for your Submission:

Please describe the inspiration for writing this piece of music.* What songs did you pull parts from for the arrangement?

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YouTube or Vimeo link:

If it is already uploaded to the web, paste the link to your video here.

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Briefly describe or sumarize the video.
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Example: Salt Lake Temple between trees, summer

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Which Church departments or auxilliaries might this video be useful for?
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Church History

Curriculum

Family History

Missionary

Media Services (Audiovisual)

Priesthood

Public Affairs

Relief Society

Sunday School

Young Men

Young Women

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Electronically Sign and Submit

By submitting this form, you agree to the terms of the agreement above.
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Type in your initials to electronically sign the agreement.

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Parental Consent

Parent/Legal Guardian: I, the undersigned, hereby warrant and represent that I am the parent or legal guardian of the minor child named above and printed next to my name below (the “Youth”), that I have full authority to execute this Release on behalf of the Youth, that I have read this Release, and that by signing below I have granted this Release on behalf of the Youth. I hereby agree that I, the Youth, and all other parents or legal guardians, if any, will be bound by all releases, consents, and covenants contained in this Release. I further agree to indemnify and defend IRI against any and all liabilities relating to the Youth’s actions in connection with the Recordings or IRI’s use of the Youths’ name, image, voice, likeness, performance, or information.